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The Independent Weekly May 15 - 21, 2009 2 www.independentweekly.com.au news ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Solar project flares at the showground ???????????? The biggest rooftop solar system in Australia, on top of the new Goyder Pavilion at the Adelaide Showground, is costing taxpayers more than $8 million for little return. The one megawatt power station is estimated to produce enough energy to power 200 homes and return an estimated $70,000 of power to the grid per year. The Government says it will stimulate and promote the solar power industry and go a long way towards meeting SA’s emissions reduction target. But at a public works committee it was revealed that photovoltalics would comprise only a minor amount of that target due to the greater capability of geothermal and wind power. The Opposition said the showground project, which includes promotional and educational signage, was merely an $8 million advertisement for the Government. Member for Unley and Public Works Committee member David Pisoni said he was concerned the Government was approving only those projects in the public eye. He said a report on a new police station in Roxby Downs had recommended solar power, but it was not approved. A development at the Victor Harbor TAFE had the same recommendation by the same report, and it was approved. “RoxbyDowns is the sunniest place in South Australia but wasn’t viable because no one would see it,” Mr Pisoni said. The Government says the showground project will demonstrate the use of large-scale solar power to industry and the public, promoting the use of renewable energy sources. A spokesman for Premier Mike Rann said the project was not based on economics but as a demonstration to educate the public. The system will be built by Solar Shop Australia and Built Environs. The solar panels will be supplied by an international company as there is no Australian manufacturer. Money flowing like desalinated water A ???????????? delaide’s greater reliance on desalinated water, outlined in Tuesday night’s Federal Budget, might double the city’s water bill. Adelaide now relies almost exclusively on cheap, non-saline water piped from the Murray. This week’s Budget committed an extra $228 million in federal funds to a plant which will desalinate sea water atPort Stanvac, up from $100 million. Matching state funds will double its capacity from 50 to 100 gigalitres a year. “This will mean the end of household water restrictions,” Premier Mike Rann said on Wednesday.“We’ll guarantee water supply for decades to come.” Federal River Murray Minister Penny Wong said Adelaide needed a water source that was not dependent on rain. “This will be achieved with the desalination plant,” she said. But it means that upstream irrigators will pay far less for water to growtheir grapes, cotton, rice and livestock than Adelaide families who use water to wash and drink. State Water Minister Karlene Maywald acknowledged on Wednesday that the bigger plant – which by some estimates will cost up to two billion dollars – will mean higher water costs. “Certainly there could be further increases, but most of the increases that we’ve incorporated in the five-year price pathway forward have incorporated a range of water security measures,” she said. The Environmental Impact Statement on the Port Stanvac plant revealed that the cost of the plant would be borne bywater consumers through increased prices. However the major cost will not be building and maintaining the plant over its expected 20-year life. It will be the plant’s enormous energy requirements of about 500 gigawatts a year. Desalinated water is between two and three times more expensive to produce than current Murray-sourced water, and plant domestic and commercial water bills could double. Averagewater prices have already increased 20 per cent this financial year to help pay for the plant. “I would expect water bill increases to go far beyond what has been foreshadowed by the Government,” Opposition Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith said. Greens MLC Mark Parnell called the Whatmatters in Australia today. Four perspectives. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Government claim of ending water restrictions “reckless and irresponsible”. “SA’s bottled electricity now will come in a jumbo size pack,” he said. “This is super- sizing gone mad. Unlike other water supply options that get cheaper in the longer term, desalinated water uses huge amounts of electricity for each and every litre produced.” The Government has refused to release its contract with the plant’s operators, who will be paid even if their desalinated water isn’t needed during times of normal rainfall. The Government has declined to commit to a new study into the larger plant’s environmental effects. Marine sedimentologist Dr Ian Dyson believes the discharge from even the smaller plant will create huge hyper-saline lakes, aquatic dead zones that will have catastrophic impacts on the fisheries. The Government’s own EIS rejects those findings. On a visit to Adelaide last month the senior adviser to the President of the UN General Assembly, Maude Barlow, criticised the privatisation of water resources. Extra reliance on desalinated water will increase private sector control of SA drinking water. > Hieu Van Le, Lieutenant Governor of South Australia and Chairman of SA Multicultural & Ethnic Affairs Commission > Lillian Holt, Aboriginal educator and public speaker on Reconciliation. > Katrina Sedgwick, Festival Director, 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival > Matthew Cowdrey OAM, SA Young Australian of the Year 2009 and distinguished Paralympian Chair: Chris Schacht, Former Federal Senator and Australia Day Ambassador Jointly presented by the Australia Day Council of South Australia and The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre at UniSA. INDEX HOME DELIVERY CALL 8224 1600 news 2-6 hear’say state politics letters 7 8 spectrum business news ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 10 12 13,14 domain commercial property 25 resources ??????????????????? ?????????????????? 15 27 shares professions 28 29 media & marketing 30 happenings thirst food Monday 1 June Doors open 5.45pm for a 6.00pm start Adelaide Town Hall, 128 King William Street, Adelaide Booking essential via Hawke Centre web site: www.hawkecentre.unisa.edu.au or phone 8302 0215 31 32 33 galleries 35-37 sport 38,40 TV ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 39 The Independent Weekly is a South Australian owned and operated newspaper, taking an independent view of local news, issues, business, sport and culture for all South Australians. www.independentweekly.com.au ?Publisher: Paul Hamra ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: Ann Oliver ?????: Philip White ???????????: Tom Richardson and Don Riddell ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: Kate Elmes ???????????? George Aldridge ???????????????????: Liz Smelt ?????????: Luke Cussans ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: Karen Lowndes ????????????: Audra Edginton, Alison Todd, Helen Rogers, Alice Jordan, advertising@independentweekly.com.au ?????????????????????????????: Peter Jarrett, circulation@independentweekly.com.au JAM USA/0491/01 CRICOS PROVIDER NO 00121B